FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 14, 2005
November 13, 2005
November 15, 2005
Transcript:
Jason: Here's what I don't get...if God created man in his own image, how come we don't also have godly powers? It seems like a big tease to make us look like a bunch of gods, but not be able to act the part. Roger: Are you familiar with the term "infinite wisdom"? Jason: I want to hurl some planets around, dangit!
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LieutenantCommanderData
In a sense he did give us significantly larger power than any other mortal species, we are the only species able to communicate across thousands of miles, leave our planet, create: atoms, subatomic particles, and radiation fields of a specified geometry. We are on the dawn of beginning to do much more, the dedication of just a few generations are all that separate man from immortality in a carnal body, interstellar travel, and creating life in artificial beings; though we will never have power comparable to the true God’s, we have more vastly more power than anything in our observable environment.
